Event to Focus on Family, Economy
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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowThe Summit on the Family and the Economy will begin this morning in Indianapolis. The event will include state officials as well as representatives from organizations including the Brookings Institution and the Indiana Parenting Institute. June 16, 2014
News Release
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – Governor Mike Pence will kick off the Summit on the Family and the Economy tomorrow. The Summit, which lasts from 10:00 a.m. ET to 3:00 p.m. ET tomorrow, will bring together national scholars and experts on family formation and its effect on the economy.
Other speakers will include:
-Ryan Streeter, Senior Policy Director for Governor Pence
-W. Bradford Wilcox, Director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia and Director of the Home Economics Project for the Institute for Family Studies and the American Enterprise Institute
-Ron Haskins, Senior Fellow and Co-Director of the Center on Children and Families at the Brookings Institution
-Robert Lerman, Professor of Economics at American University and Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute
-Laura Smith-Wynn, Founder and Executive Director of the Indiana Parenting Institute
-Mary Myrick, President, and Kendy Cox, Director of Community-based Training Services, of Public Strategies
Source: The Office of Governor Mike Pence